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The Inconsistent Effectiveness Of The UN Security Council
The Syrian political crisis has escalated rapidly in the last few years with Bashar al-Assad’s government employing chemical weapons against its own civilians. Even though Syria committed to destroying its chemical stockpile ...
COP18: It’s All About the Money – LCA updates
As negotiations in Doha continue three things are glaringly obvious – the process is slow, there remains a distinct lack of trust between developing and developed countries and it’s all about the money. Yesterday, day four ...
Colombia’s military ceasefire: One step closer to peace?
In a fifteen-minute long speech delivered on Tuesday evening, President Juan Manuel Santos announced that Colombia’s Armed Forces shall stop their bombing operations against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) f...
Snowden, the NSA, and Latin America: Beyond the headlines
If you were to read only the headlines of US news covering the controversy surrounding Edward Snowden and the NSA’s surveillance in Latin America over the last two weeks, it would be easy to think that Latin America was a ...
Focus on Africa: Should we be amused or should we take offence?
It seems to me that the African identity has been under siege from a barrage of demeaning attacks by some isolated but significant players abroad. These attacks have generated an angry discourse across many (social) media platf...
Despite Poor Results, Globe University Focuses On “Selling Education”
In July of 2012, after a two-year investigation, the Senate HELP Committee released a scathing report on the for-profit college industry. The investigation found that many of these schools charge a much higher tuition, have low...
